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eMOLT Update 2023-09-29
This week, George participated in a data workshop organized by our
colleagues at the Fishing Vessel Ocean Observing Network. The purpose of
the workshop was to learn from the Argo
Program, an international ocean observing system that provides
copious amounts of data to global weather forecasters. Argo data
managers from France, the United Kingdom, and both coasts of the United
States worked with us to discuss best practices for data management and
quality control with the idea that in the future, data collected by
fishermen could be incorporated into global weather forecasting
systems.
For those of you who aren’t familiar Argo is an international program
that measures water properties across the world’s ocean using a fleet of
robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and
down between the surface and a mid-water level. They’ve been really
successful at collecting data from a large swath of the ocean, but
because of hardware limitations, Argo’s robots can’t operate in shallow
coastal seas.

That limitation makes our work complimentary to Argo’s data
collection efforts. In the plot above, you can see profiles collected by
Argo robots (red) and fishing vessel based sensors (eMOLT in blue and
Ocean Data Network in purple) since the beginning of 2023. We’re excited
to work with the Argo team on getting our data into those bigger,
international pipelines, which will make it more useful to the broader
scientific community.

Forecasts
NECOFS Bottom Temperature Forecast


Doppio Bottom Temperature Forecast

Announcements
The US Geological Survey deploys buoys to collect real time data
during hurricanes. One of the three buoys deployed during Lee is
currently drifting off of Race Point in Provincetown, and they’d like it
back to deploy somewhere else. The buoy is yellow and about the size of
a basketball. You can track it here.
If you happen across the buoy while you’re out fishing or if you collect
it on a joy ride, please contact Chris Sherwood at csherwood@usgs.gov or
774-269-9399.
With the impending government shutdown, George’s email and phone
will be locked down starting on Monday. Please contact Erin Pelletier at
erin@gomlf.org if you
run into any issues during this time.
Saildrone is operating two Uncrewed Surface Vessels in the
eastern third of the Gulf of Maine to collect high resolution
bathymetric data from August 28 - October 18. Coordinates by date and
contact information can be found here
All the best, George and JiM
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